[geefree]

If i tried to build my own website.. what are the first steps to take?

can anyone simplify it for me please. in an easy to understand order?

E.g

1/ find a host

2/ blah blah

3/ blah blah blah

4/ blah blah blah blah


Thank you .

Gary.

[pjulk]

Get a domain name i use www.uk-cheapest.co.uk/
£2.97 per year.
And i use www.dream-hosting.co.uk for my sites and its £9.99 a year and you can host 5 sites on this.

They have a free web builder to use i have not used it so can't say what it's like.

[geefree]

Thanks Paul,

Thats a cracking bit of advice, i will have a play around with those.

Thanks again.

[seandyer2003]

Get a domain name i use www.uk-cheapest.co.uk/
£2.97 per year.
And i use www.dream-hosting.co.uk for my sites and its £9.99 a year and you can host 5 sites on this.

They have a free web builder to use i have not used it so can't say what it's like.

that 5 sites one for 9.99 i will have to check out as i am paying about £40 each for my 2, and im sure it does loads of really amazing stuff for that , but to be honest i dont know what, or how to use it anyway, my sites are online and thats all i want, will check it at renewal time next year

[Nathanael Jones]

It costs a little more, but I'd always recommend www.letshost.ie as their package is fully loaded. You can control every aspect of your domain, and will never ever run out of bandwidth. You can run up to 25 websites from 1 hosting package too.

[geefree]

Thanks for all the help... i have just copied this below....... from dream hosting.....


We guarantee network uptime to be 99.9% or better. This guarantee allows for approximately 45 minutes per month and 8 hours per year of network downtime. Dream-Hosting.co.uk's cumulative network uptime since the opening of the new Lansing datacenter is 100.00%.

what does this mean....




anyway... so i will find a host...

then a domain name.... do i then have a website?

[Nathanael Jones]

What operating system, perl version & cgi scripts does dream hosting offer?

Might sound like rubbish now,.. but it can make a big difference in the end,...

Letshost.ie    worth the couple of extra quid!

[pjulk]

They have all the upto date stuff on there servers they all ways seem to update.

Here is the details you want.

Apache version   2.2.9 (Unix)
PHP version   5.2.6
MySQL version   5.0.67-community-
log
Architecture   x86_64
Operating system   Linux

I have been with them for 4 years and i had websites before i went with them and this is the best host i have been with.


These are the CGI scripts that are installed

    Simple CGI Wrapper
This is a CGI Wrapper that will allow you to run CGI Scripts with your User ID.

   Random HTML Generator
This is a Random HTML generator. It picks a string of HTML code from a list and inserts it in an SSI (Server Side Includes) enabled web page.

   Simple GuestBook
A just a simple guestbook for your visitors to view and sign.

   Advanced GuestBook
This is a more advanced guestbook written in PHP and MySQL.

   Counter
You can create a counter to count and show how many visitors have been to your site.

   Clock
This utility will create a real time java clock for your site.

   Countdown
You can create a countdown box to countdown to a specified date.

   CGI email
CGI Email takes the input of an HTML form and converts it to an email format defined by the author of the form.

   FormMail Clone
FormMail-clone is a clone of Matt Wright's FormMail.

   Entropy Search
Setup Search Engine
Rebuild Search Index

   Entropy Banners
This feature allows you to create rotating banner ads for your site.

[pjulk]

Gazzasp8 said

We guarantee network uptime to be 99.9% or better. This guarantee allows for approximately 45 minutes per month and 8 hours per year of network downtime. Dream-Hosting.co.uk's cumulative network uptime since the opening of the new Lansing datacenter is 100.00%.

Its just to cover themselves incase the place where the server gets a powercutor something.
Or they need to shut the server down for upgrade or whatever.
This is normal for all hosting companies to put this up.

[geefree]

Thanks for all the technical info 

i have just been looking through the site again... dream etc

so, a silver package would give me webspace £9.99 per year.

then i go to the cheaper domain website to register for £2.97

Then i go back to DREAM HOST. and register my name on my hosting space.....

Then i go to a free template site for all my web pages.?

is that me up and running then?

 

[pjulk]

Thats more or less it.

Once you have your domain name.
when you register with the hosting company they will ask for the website name then tell you to point the name at there server.
They will give you two DNS address's.
You then go back to the people you bought the website name from and log in.
There will be a part in there for DNS just click that put the two address's in the hosting company gave you and click ok.

It will take anything from 1 hour upto 24 hours for you site to first show.

but you can still build your site and upload it whilst you waiting.
You can get a free website template and edit that in an editor there's plenty of free one's about or use the hosting companies website builder.

Paul

[s.w.c]

mine i did myself with no experience cost me under £10, its nothing special but its a start

[Pristine Clean]

It costs a little more, but I'd always recommend www.letshost.ie as their package is fully loaded. You can control every aspect of your domain, and will never ever run out of bandwidth. You can run up to 25 websites from 1 hosting package too.

This is ok but www.letshost.ie are not even in the UK. Is that important you may ask? Well yes. We are in the UK and our seach engine is either ending in .co.uk

If you were in America you would not seach on Google.co.uk it would be Google.com. If you look at Google its has 2 radio buttons. The web and UK Sites. Most people select UK sites. So if your hosted on IE then it wont return all that well in the ranking. I know I was once a web designer and SEO exec.

So get your domain from 1 company. Its easier to maintain.

Plus helps again with ranking.. aas if you have to alter Dns to point to where the site is hosted.

Dave

Dave

[Nathanael Jones]

Just because the service is in a .ie domain doesn't mean they only sell .ie!! I've plenty of .com & .co.uk domains from them that rank very well!!!
They do offer a fully loaded hosting package too,. so definitely get both your domain and hosting from the 1 company!

[geefree]

THis is why i got confused last time.  and give up...

i suppose its each to their own....

i just wanted a start.,

thanks again i will delv again into all these suggestions.

[s.w.c]

gaz mine was done through office live for nothing and i got the domain for three years from starnet, take a look at my site simple but easy and i have no knowledge of building a web site

[geefree]

Thanks.... i will get going...its taking the right steps thats  hard


i have searched for starnet free domain name, but cant find them anywhere. 

[Chris B]

Think he means starternet

[geefree]

Thanks ... but thats american lol.

www.starternet.co.uk/

even though its co. uk

help lines american, and dollars...

and no,.... co.uk domain names.

[geefree]

Right... i have took my first step..... i have a domain name ... yippee

cheapest.co.uk

says will take 24 hours to register...

can i look for ahost still?...

im getting into this.